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Statistics about Activiti

lnavet — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:40:52 GMT

Hello everyone,I am currently learning the Activiti tool as part of a JAVA project, so I have:- Initialized a Maven project by adding the activiti dependencies in my POM (version 5.22.0)- realized a Workflow (bpmn file)- used the RuntimeService and TaskService services=> Everything works perfectl

Re: Statistics about Activiti

vasile_dirla — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:51:09 GMT

Have a look here: Activiti User Guide this could help you. (chapter: 15.8 History)

Re: Statistics about Activiti

gdharley — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:44:22 GMT

Hello Lawrence,

As Vasile alludes to, Activiti automatically captures a great deal of information about process executions automatically.
All major instance events such as instance start, end, task start, assign, end, variable updates are all captured in the Activiti history tables automatically.
Activiti provides a Java or Rest API to query these tables for reporting purposes.
Additionally, and to me more importantly, Activiti has recently introduced a powerful Event framework that allows you to capture any number of events and save them into a repository of your choice (such as Elasticsearch). This framework is documented in the Users guide here: Activiti User Guide - Event Handlers

We have been able to use this event interface to create external depositories of process data for reporting purposes. In my opinion, this is preferable to using the history tables for reporting as reporting load will not impact runtime performance.

Cheers,

Greg